The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 88
'The Lion Fairy keeps a store of bees in a secret place near to the bottom of the ten thousand steps leading into the upper world.
Who acts: Lion Fairy, thousand steps · What happens: keep, lead · To what, where: store, secret place, upper world
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion Fairy, thousand steps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fairy | compound |
| 4 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 store | det |
| 7 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bees | case |
| 9 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 store | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obl |
| 14 | near | near | ADV | _ | 17 bottom | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bottom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 steps | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 steps | det |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 thousand | compound |
| 21 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 steps | nummod |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bottom | nmod |
| 23 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 steps | acl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 26 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 world | amod |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leading | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the Lion Fairy | a store of bees | a secret place to the bottom of the thousand steps | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent store=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | the thousand steps not said here | the upper world | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into world=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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